82.01 Eyre Affair- Novels 1-5 by Jasper Fforde

Author:Jasper Fforde
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781101158517
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2011-07-12T06:57:34+00:00

We pressed our weight against the door and it closed. The wind abated, the thunder now merely a distant rumble behind the half-glazed door. I picked up the bent saxophone.

“I had no idea the Text Sea looked like anything at all,” I said, panting. “I thought it was just an abstract notion.”

“Oh, it’s real all right,” replied Jack, picking up his hat, “as real as anything is down here. The LiteraSea is the basis for all prose written in roman script. It’s connected to the Searyllic Ocean somewhere, but I don’t know the details. You know what this means, don’t you?”

“That scene stealers have been at work?”

“It looks more like a deletion to me,” replied Jack grimly, “ excised. The whole kerfuffle. Characters, setting, dialogue, subplot and the narrative-turning device regarding the fight-fixing that the writer had pinched from On the Waterfront.”

“Where to?”

“Probably to another book by the same author,” sighed Jack. “Kind of proves we won’t be long for the Well. It’s the next nail in the coffin.”

“Can’t we just jump into the next chapter and the discovery of the drug dealer shot dead when the undercover buy goes wrong?”

“It would never work,” said Jack, shaking his head. “Let me see—I wouldn’t have known about Hawkins’s involvement with Davison’s master plan. More importantly, Mickey Finn would have no reason to be killed if he didn’t talk to me, so he would have been there to stop the fight before Johnson placed his three-hundred-thousand-pound bet—and the heartwarming scene in the last two pages of the book with the young lad will make no sense unless I meet him here first. Shit. There isn’t a holesmith anywhere in the Well who can fill this one. We’re finished, Thursday. As soon as the book figures the gym scene has gone, the plot will start to spontaneously unravel. We’ll have to declare literary insolvency. If we do it quick, we might be able to get most of the major parts reassigned to another book.”

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